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In-App Subscriptions Made Easy

There are various types of subscriptions: recurring, non-recurring, free-trial periods, various billing cycles and any possible billing variation one can imagine. But with lack of information online, you might discover that mobile subscriptions behave differently from what you expected. This article will make your life somewhat easier when addressing an in-app subscriptions implementation.

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Mozilla Sweet.js: Extending JavaScript with Macros

Mozilla Sweet.js enables developers to enrich JavaScript by adding new syntax to the language through the use of macros. This helps developers to customize the JavaScript syntax for their style, or to expand it by creating a new JavaScript-based DSL useful for their niche domain.

Sweet.js provides the possibility to define hygienic macros inspired by Scheme and Rust with the macro keyword. A simple example is replacing the keyword function with a shorter one, def:

More macro examples can be found on Mozilla/Sweet.js wiki in GitHub where the source code can also be found under a BSD license.

Sweet.js files containing macros are compiled into pure JavaScript files without any foreign syntax with sjs. require-sweet provides an AMD loader and there is a SweetJS gem for compiling Sweet.js files from Ruby.